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Indian Political Thought

assumed that india lacks political and strategic culture india only has spiritual wisdom politics= this worldly, india= other worldly above describes west's ethnocentric view to uphold its hegemony Prof. VR Mehta : there is difference in the outlook of west and east west thinks in dichotomous line difference between man and society nature and culture politics and ethics indians look things in continuity, never separated the above Prof. Morris Jones :   neglect of indian political thought will result into impowerishment of west Max Muller:    regarded as the greatest Indologist no where in the world, human mind has been applied to such an extent to deal with various questions of life conclusion indian texts like Manusmriti, Kautilya's Arthashastra, ramayana, Mahabharat, Shukraneeti Features continuity in ancient and modern thought ethics, politics not separate communitarian, pluralistic, cosmopolitan Sant Tukaram :  entire world is a family non-critical, not optimis...

Nature, Scope and Approaches

Traditional  Modern Behaviouralist before WW2, europe, philosophical focus on state, constitutions philosophical, historical, empirical legal-institutional method for comparative post WW2, America, scientific American Political Science Association study on human behaviour rather than institution scientific rather than philosophical behavioural turned to post-behavioural  revival of philosophy in europe: post modernism, critical school, feminism Theda Skopol : bring the state back in fear of discipline losing importance since new frontiers like environment, family being priority under behaviouralism Approaches in political science Traditional  Philosophical Historical based on Socrates - Theory of Knowledge Rawls, Berlin,       Dante Germino   , Leo Strauss Socrates : dialectics Plato : father of political philosophy idea of ideal state oldest normative (justice, liberty, equality, etc) criticised by behaviouralist wanted to make political scienc...